print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.13245
- Title
- Object: The Gouty Husband and his Young Wife
- Description
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A satire; the scene of a duel, a man holding a sword while his adversary bows, behind each figure is their second; all parcipants are lavishly dressed with extremely exaggerated hairstyles; in the very centre, another man, the physicain; at the men's feet lie two pistols and in the far distance is a gallows with a figure hanging from it;
Etching
- Production date
- c.1760-1789
- Dimensions
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Height: 116 millimetres (Sheet)
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Width: 177 millimetres (Sheet)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Inscribed on verso in pencil: '? Duke of York and Lord Lennox? 1789'
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.13245
